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VCA4-DT Training Aids

The VCA4-DT exam has been out for a while now and whilst there still isn’t a required attendance on a course there also isn’t a great deal of training material out there for the exam.

The following material can be used to aid your study for the exam, it’s important to note that the VCA4-DT [...]

VMware View 9 Day Bootcamp

VMware are releasing a 9 day VMware View Bootcamp Series covering all aspects of virtual desktops.

There will be 9 videos, each video released daily starting on the 19th July.

Topics covered over the 9 days are :-

Day 1 – Design Considerations Guidelines for VMware View – Overview

Speaker – John Dodge, Sr. Manager [...]

ThinApp’d vSphere Client Error – “The type initializer for ‘xr’ threw an exception”

I have been using the ThinApp’d version of the vSphere client that I created on my desktop PC rather than installing the thick client, it’s obviously smaller and cleaner and until recently hadn’t caused me any issues.

I was installing the Xangati OVF and decided to add the vDS (vNetwork Distributed Switch) to my homelab [...]

ThinApp – How to virtualise the vSphere Client (4.1u1)

As promised yesterday here is a quick tutorial showing how to ThinApp the vSphere client, so as to reduce the package size as much as possible the work was carried out on a fully patched Windows XP SP3 machine with the J# redist installed as well.

The entire process from start to finish took about [...]

VMware ThinApp 4.6 Starter Bundle Licensing Issues

About six months back when VMware had a deal going where if you purchased VMware Workstation you also received a license for VMware ThinApp Starter Bundle I decided to take the plunge and made the purchase (it was also at the time when workstation had a $50 discount going on).

Before now I hadn’t really [...]